Remote ischemic preconditioning (rIPC) has been shown to reduce the extent of myocardial infarction during an ischemic event as well as prior to a planned cardiac intervention. Vigorous exercise has been shown to have similar cardiovascular benefits to remote ischemic preconditioning in healthy individuals. Despite this effect, many individuals who exercise regularly present with cardiovascular...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The study assessed the interests of ambulatory cardiac patients in advance planning and their willingness to participate in rehabilitation program-based end-of-life education. DESIGN Observational survey study. SETTING Fourteen outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs in 11 states. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred fifteen subjects enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation. MEASUREM...

PURPOSE Exercise is beneficial to quality of life after cancer treatment, yet few cancer survivors meet exercise guidelines. Our study sought to determine the feasibility of an oncology rehabilitation exercise program embedded within a cardiac rehabilitation program. METHODS Patients who rated their fatigue >4/10 after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer were screened for el...

conclusions supervised in-hospital exercise training was associated with improvements in saecg-measured electrical activity post-mi. results cardiac rehabilitation led to significant improvements in qrs duration (p < 0.001), square root of amplitude in the last 40 ms (p < 0.001) and duration of terminal signal with low amplitude (p < 0.001). cardiac rehabilitation also resulted in amelioration ...

The dilated cardiomyopathy is the common type of cardiomyopathy, and its distinctive characteristic is the systolic dysfunction. Not many reports were issued about the efficacy of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with an advanced dilated cardiomyopathy until yet. A 50-year-old man who was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure was admitted to the emergency room af...

this paper is a short review on the jann and content of speech and language rehabilitation services and the trend of their institutionalization in iran. a summary of formal education in speech and language therapy in iran as originated by establishing a 4 year bs rehabilitation program in the college of rehabilitation sciences in tehran in 1974 is given. since then, speech and language rehabili...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of sociodemographic factors in failure to complete outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR). METHODS This was a retrospective study that used information obtained from the database of the cardiac rehabilitation department of a cardiac hospital in Iran. Data from 1,050 CR patients treated at the hospital between January 2001 and January 2013 was analyzed using b...

Smoking is major risk factor for cardiovascular disease; 40% of cardiovascular deaths are attributed to smoking. For individuals who have been smokers and who experience a cardiac event, quitting reduces the risk of a recurrent event by 50%. In July 1996, Kaiser Permanente-Colorado implemented the MULTIFIT cardiac rehabilitation and risk reduction program. The MULTIFIT program is a nurse case m...

BACKGROUND There are references regarding physical activity and cardiovascular disease since the nineteenth century. New evidences support that cardiac rehabilitation is closely related to therapeutic success after major coronary events. Although the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation programs are well established, referencing and enrolment in such services remain low. AIM The aim of this pap...